Dr. Bryan Bledsoe is an emergency physician and EMS author from Midlothian, Texas. He entered EMS in 1974 as an EMT and attended one of the first paramedic programs in north Texas. Dr. Bledsoe worked for several years in Fort Worth as a paramedic and went on to become an EMS Instructor and Coordinator. He is board-certified in emergency medicine. Dr. Bledsoe is the author of numerous EMS textbooks including: Paramedic Care: Principles & Practice, Essentials of Paramedic Care, Paramedic Emergency Care, Prehospital Emergency Pharmacology, Anatomy and Physiology for Emergency Care, Critical Care Paramedic, and many others. He is a frequent contributor to EMS magazines and presenter at national and international EMS conferences. Dr. Bledsoe is on the faculty of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the University of Nevada, School of Medicine in Las Vegas, Nevada. He co-chairs the Curriculum and Evaluation Board (CEB) of the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) at MacDill AFB, Florida.
Since first appearing in 1998, Garners Modern American Usage has established itself as the preeminent guide to the effective use of the English language. Brimming with witty, erudite essays on troublesome words and phrases, GMAU authoritatively shows how to avoid the countless pitfalls that await unwary writers and speakers whether the issues relate to grammar, punctuation, word choice, or pronunciation. An exciting new feature of this third edition is Garners Language-Change Index, which registers where each disputed usage in modern English falls on a five-stage continuum from nonacceptability (to the language community as a whole) to acceptability, giving the book a consistent standard throughout. GMAU is the first usage guide ever to incorporate such a language-change index. The judgments are based both on Garners own original research in linguistic corpora and on his analysis of hundreds of earlier studies. Another first in this edition is the panel of critical readers: 120-plus commentators who have helped Garner reassess and update the text, so that every page has been improved. Bryan A. Garner is a writer, grammarian, lexicographer, teacher, and lawyer.He has written professionally about English usage for more than 28 years, and his work has achieved widespread renown. David Foster Wallace proclaimed that Bryan Garner is a genius and William Safire called the book excellent. In fact, due to the strength of his work on GMAU, Garner was the grammarian asked to write the grammar-and-usage chapter for the venerable Chicago Manual of Style. His advice on language matters is second to none.
Completely updated in a new edition and written by the best-selling author team of Bryan E. Bledsoe D.O., F.A.C.E.P., EMT-P, Robert S. Porter M.A., NREMT-P, and Richard A. Cherry , M.S., NREMT-P , this student-friendly easy to understand series covers the DOT National Standard Curriculum . The second of 5 titles in the Brady Paramedic Care Principles and Practice series, Volume 2 - Patient Assessment - covers history, physical exam, field assessment, clinical decision-making, communications, and documentation.
Completely updated in a new edition and written by the best-selling author team of Bryan E. Bledsoe D.O., F.A.C.E.P., EMT-P, Robert S. Porter M.A., NREMT-P, and Richard A. Cherry, M.S., NREMT-P, this student-friendly easy to understand series covers the DOT National Standard Curriculum.The third of 5 titles in the Brady Paramedic Care Principles and Practice series, Volume 3 - Medical Emergencies - covers pulmonology, cardiology, neurology, endocrinology, allergies and anaphylaxis, gastroenterology, urology and nephrology, toxicology and substance abuse, hematology, environmental emergencies, infectious diseases, psychiatric and behavorial emergencies, gynecology, and obstetrics.
Western historian Howard Bryan presents the stories of some of the outlaws and desperadoes of the Western frontier, based to a large extent on 19th century newspaper accounts of their activities and interviews with pioneers who knew some of them.
This is the compelling story of this often over-looked conflict, told largely in the words of the participants themselves. It was a war peopled by the famous and those soon to be: Teddy Roosevelt, Stephen Crane, Clara Barton, and William Jennings Bryan are among those who played key roles in the war against Spain.
Although Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan lost the presidential elections of 1896, 1900, and 1908, he was the most influential political figure of his era. This book explores how Bryan's effort to reach the White House energized conservatives across the nation and caused a transformation in constitutional law.
CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; About the Series; Foreword (Bryan T. Peck); Preface; Society, World's Second Curriculum Poem Questions from Beyond: Educational Queries for a New Millennium; Education for Ireland: The Real Problem, Robert Young's A Critical Theory of Education: Habermas and Our Children's Future -- A Review; John Dewey and Education for Life in an American Democracy; On Goals for American Education: an Overview; What All Schools Need; Let's Hear it for Accountability; How Can We Integrate Children Into the Life of the Student?; How Children Learn Alienation; Lifelong Education; Creativity and Children; G.H. Meade: Implications for Curriculum Theory; Curriculum Development: Some Approaches; Values Development as Content for the Curriculum; Developing Curriculum Change in the Inner City: The Providence Experience Community; The Urban Educational Center: Exercise in Curriculum Building; The Teacher as Agent for Change; The Focus of Humanism and the Teacher; Conversations with Teachers; Education Beyond Surprises; Dimensions for the Future; Index.
Tells the story of the Second World War as seen through a Bryan Magee's eyes. This title evokes the atmostphere of wartime England, the community spirit of a society before television, where very few had cars or telephones.
Preparation of (3,5-Dimethoxy-1-Phenyl Cyclohexa-2,5-Dienyl)-Acetonitrile Through Birch Reductive Alkylation (BRA) (Raphael Lebeuf, Muriel Berlande, Frederic Robert, and Yannick Landais). Synthesis of Tert-Butyl (1S,2S)-2-Methyl-3-Oxo-1-Phenylpropylcarbamate By Asymmetric Mannich Reaction (Jung Woon Yang, Subhas Chandra, Pan, and Benjamin List). Synthesis of Pyrazolo[1,5-a]Pyridines Via Azirines: Preparation of 2-(3-Bromophenyl)-6-(Trifluoromethyl)Pyrazolo[1,5-a]Pyridine (Stephen Greszler and Kirk L. Stevens). Benzyl Alcohol as an Alkylating Agent Using the Ruthenium-Catalyzed Borrowing Hydrogen Strategy (Tracy D. Nixon, Paul A. Slatford, Michael K. Whittlesey and Jonathan M. J. Williams). 2-(2,2-Dibromoethenyl)-Benzenamine (Christopher Bryan, Valentina Aurregi and Mark Lautens). (S)-(-)-2-Allylcyclohexanone (Manfred Braun, Panos Meletis, and Mesut Fidan). Preparation of 4-Spirocyclohexyloxazolidinone By C-H Bond Nitrene Insertion (Kim Huard and Helene Lebel). Preparation of (S)-4-Isopropyl-N-Propanoyl-1,3-Thiazolidine-2-Thione (Erik Galvez, Pedro Romea, and Felix Urpi). Stereoselective Synthesis of Anti alpha-Methyl-s-Methoxy Carboxylic Compounds (Erik Galvez, Pedro Romea, and Felix Urpi). Synthesis of 2-Arylindole-4-Carboxylic Amides: [2-(4-Fluorophenyl)-1H-Indol-4-YL]-1-Pyrrolidinylmethanone (Jeffrey T. Kuethe and Gregory L. Beutner). Palladium (II) Acetate-Butyldi-1- Adamantylphosphine Catalyzed Arylation of Electron-Rich Heterocycles. Preparation of 5-Phenyl-2-Isobutylthiazole (Anna Lazareva, Hendrich A. Chiong, and Olafs Daugulis). Mild and Efficient One-Pot Curtius Rearrangement: Preparatino of N-Tert-Butyl Adamantanyl-1-YL-Carbamate (Olivier Leogane and Helene Lebel). Enantioselective Oxidation of An Alkyl Aryl Sulfide: Synthesis of (S)-(-) Methyl p-Bromophenyl Sulfoxide (Carmelo Drago, Emma-Hane Walker, Lorenzo Caggiano and Richard F. W. Jackson). Protection of Diols with 4-(tert-Butyldimethylsilyloxy)Benzylidene Acetal and Its Deprotection:(4-((4R,5R)-4,5-Diphenyl-1,3-Dioxolan-2-YL) Phenoxy
The first major volume to place U.S.-centered labor history in a transnational or U.S.-in-the-world focus, Workers Across the Americas collects the newest work of leading Canadianist, Caribbeanist, and Latin American specialists, as well as U.S. historians. As distinct from comparative histories built around the integrity of their nation-state subjects, these essays highlight both the supra- or sub-national aspect of selected topics without ignoring the power of nation-states themselves as historical forces. Indeed, the transnational focus opens new avenues for understanding changes in the concepts, policies and practice of states, their interactions with each other and their populations, and the ways in which the popular classes resist, react, and use both nation-state and non-state entities to advance their interests. What does this transnational turn encompass? And what are its likely perils as well as promise as a framework for research and analysis?To address these questions six eminent scholars (John French, Julie Greene, Neville Kirk, Aviva Chomsky, Dirk Hoerder, and Vic Satzewich) lead off the volume with their own critical commentaries on the very project of transnational labor history. Their responses effectively offer a tour of explanations, tensions, and cautions in the evolution of a new arena of research and writing. Thereafter, Workers Across the Americas groups fifteen research essays around themes of Labor and Empire, Indigenous Peoples and Labor Systems, International Feminism and Reproductive Labor, Labor Recruitment and Immigration Control, Transnational Labor Politics, and Labor Internationalism. Topics range from military labor in the British Empire to coffee workers on the Guatemalan/Mexican border to the Atlantic white slavery traffic to the role of the International Labor Organization in attempting to set common labor standards. Leading scholars--including Camille Guerin-Gonzalez, Alex Lichtenstein, Nelson Lichtenstein, Colleen O'Neill, Premilla Nadasen, and Bryan Palmer--introduce
Born in 1910, Diana was the most beautiful and the cleverest of the six Mitford sisters. She was eighteen when she married Bryan Guinness, of the brewing dynasty, by whom she had two sons. After four years, she left him for the fascist leader, Oswald Mosley - a course of action that horrified her family. This title offers her portrait.
Written with the assistance, of those involved, including Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno, Andy Mackay and Phil Manzanera, this book gives an account of how pop art, the avant garde underground of the 1960s, and the heady slipstream of London in the sixties was transformed into the fashion cults of revivalism, nostalgia and pop futurism in the early 1970s.
Bryan R. Gibson is a doctoral candidate in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science in London, UK. He is presently researching the American policy towards the Kurdish Revolt in Iraq that lasted from 1961 to 1975.
Though China's economy is projected to become the world's largest within the next twenty years, industrial pollution threatens both the health of the country's citizens and the natural resources on which their economy depends. Capturing the consequences of this reality, Bryan Tilt conducts an in-depth, ethnographic study of Futian Township, a rural community reeling from pollution. The industrial township is located in the populous southwestern province of Sichuan. Three local factories-a zinc smelter, a coking plant, and a coal-washing plant-produce air and water pollution that far exceeds the standards set by the World Health Organization and China's Ministry of Environmental Protection. Interviewing state and company officials, factory workers, farmers, and scientists, Tilt shows how residents cope with this pollution and how they view its effects on health and economic growth. Striking at the heart of the community's environmental values, he explores the intersection between civil society and environmental policy, weighing the tradeoffs between protection and economic growth.Tilt ultimately finds that the residents are quite concerned about pollution, and he investigates the various strategies they use to fight it. His study unravels the complexity of sustainable development within a rapidly changing nation.
"Dit boek gaat onder meer over de zevenjarige Bryan, die seksueel misbruikt is door zijn vader. Over de negenjarige Oumou die met haar familie het oorlogsgeweld in een Afrikaans land ontvlucht en daarbij haar moeder verliest en over de zesjarige Thomas die een pijnlijke chemokuur heeft moeten doorstaan. Bryan, Oumou en Thomas hebben het vertrouwen in anderen en in zichzelf verloren. Hun levensplezier, optimisme, nieuwsgierigheid en veerkracht zijn verdwenen. Het zijn drie met ‘stomheid geslagen’ kinderen die niet kunnen praten over wat hen is overkomen, omdat ze te jong zijn, een verstandelijke beperking hebben, (te) loyaal zijn aan hun ouders of omdat hetgeen ze overkomen is gewoonweg te overweldigend is. Wat ze alle drie wél kunnen is spelen. In hun spelverhalen komen verraad en onbegrip tot uiting, maar ook woede, verdriet, angst en machteloosheid. Psychotherapie met behulp van spel biedt een mogelijkheid deze kinderen te helpen. Spel is hun taal. En als er taal is, kan er gecommuniceerd worden en is hulp mogelijk.'Spel in psychotherapie gaat' in op de betekenissen van de spelsymboliek: hoe is spel te doorgronden en te begrijpen? Op speltechnieken: hoe doe je het? Op behandelkaders: hoe kan er samengewerkt worden met ouders? Al deze aspecten worden in vele diagnostische en therapeutische voorbeelden toegelicht. Bovendien komt de wetenschappelijke fundering aan bod: de speltheorie en het onderzoek naar de effectiviteit van spelpsychotherapie.De uitgave is primair geschreven voor kinderpsychotherapeuten, kinderpsychiaters, klinisch psychologen, Gz-psychologen en vaktherapeuten; voor hen is het een handboek. Ook zij die betrokken zijn bij de zorg voor het welzijn van kinderen binnen de GGz, de jeugdhulpverlening en het onderwijs – behandelverantwoordelijken, orthopedagogen, leerkrachten en beleidsmakers – zullen in dit boek veel van hun gading vinden."
Professor Bryan Sykes provides a first-hand account of his research into a gene which passes undiluted from generation to generation through the maternal line and shows how it is being used to track our genetic ancestors.
Part 1 Introduction * Epidemiology Louise Thwaites, Karen Walker-Bone * History taking Peter A Huijbregts * Physical examination Shane Koppenhaver, Timothy Flynn * Imaging studies Hilmir Agustsson * Electrodiagnostic studies Caroline A Quartly * Myofascial trigger points Jozef L M Franssen, Carel Bron, Jan Dommerholt Part 2 Cervical-thoracic spine * Mechanical neck pain Bryan S Dennison, Michael H Leal * Whiplash associated disorders Michele Sterling * Cervical myelopathy and radiculopathy Chad E Cook, AmyE Cook * Thoracic outlet syndrome Susan W Stralka * Thoracic spine manipulation William Egan, Paul Glynn, Joshua A Cleland * Cervical spine mobilization and manipulation John R Krauss, Douglas S Creighton * Therapeutic exercise for mechanical neck pain Carol Kennedy Part 3 The shoulder region * Acromio-clavicular joint Janette W Powell, Ian Shrier, Peter A Huijbregts * Sterno-clavicular joint Erland Pettman * Rotator cuff lesions: shoulder impingement Peter A Huijbregts, Carel Bron * Gleno-humeral instability Steven C Allen, Russell S VanderWilde, Peter Huijbregts * Superior labrum anterior-to-posterior (SLAP) lesions Janette W Powell, Peter A Huijbregts * Frozen shoulder Carel Bron, Arthur de Gast, Jozef L M Franssen * Mobilization with movement of the shoulder joint Wayne Hing, Jack Miller * Motor control of the shoulder region Mary E Magarey, Mark A Jones * Therapeutic exercises for the shoulder region Johnson McEvoy, Kieran O'Sullivan, Carel Bron Part 4 The elbow region * Elbow tendinopathy: lateral epicondylalgia Bill Vicenzino * Other elbow disorders: elbow instability arthritic conditions Chris Sebelski * Joint mobilization and manipulation of the elbow Helen Slater, Cesar Fernandez de las Penas Part 5 The wrist and hand regions * Tendinopathies of the wrist and hand C Joseph Yelvington, Ellen J Pong * Wrist instability Ellen J Pong * Carpal tunnel syndrome Luca Padua, Costanza Pazzaglia, Ana Isabel-de-la-Llave-Rincon *
Can ordinary people really gather together and make laws that are binding on themselves and their communities? Frank M. Bryan discusses this with particular reference to the New England town meeting which provides a model of such a pure form of democracy.
The 'Wild West' stories of Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone pale in comparison to the incredible story of Las Vegas, New Mexico, for decades considered the most violent community on America's western frontier. In Wildest of the Wild West, popular Western historian Howard Bryan provides a spirited account of the violent, melodramatic, and often bizarre events that centred in and around this small Hispanic farm and ranching community from 1835 to 1915.
'God is dead,' Nietzsche famously declared in The Gay Science; but this book will investigate God's surprising persistence and resurrection in the works of even the most seemingly atheistic of writers, who continue to deploy Judaic and Christian narratives and tropes even as they radically rewrite them in the face of new cultural, political and scientific imperatives. Contributors explore the range, power and implication of Christian and Jewish heresies in canonical Anglo-American writers -- including Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, T S Eliot, John Steinbeck and Jim Crace -- as well as in some less familiar texts: the Mormon Scriptures of Joseph Smith and various Victorian rewritings of the Book of Esther. A polemical essay by Michelene Wandor reflects on conceptions of Jewishness, which she finds in need of heretical renewal. Valentine Cunningham's provocative introduction argues that the acts of literary writing and reading are necessarily heretical. A coda to the book, 'Between Heresy and Superstition', takes as its motto Thomas Huxley's observation in 1881 that 'It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.'Contributions offer readers a rare opportunity of witnessing an extended academic exchange -- exploring the process by which former heresies may indeed risk ossification as new kinds of doctrinal conformity. Bryan Cheyette's critique of the 'Christian Albums' of Bob Dylan is answered by Kevin Mills's essay which uncovers heretical possibility even in this most seemingly orthodox part of Dylan's work. The revitalisation of heresy in literary interpretations, as well as in our religious thinking, forms the guiding objective of this exciting critical book.
By the end of the nineteenth century, the world was ready to adopt the gold standard out of concerns of national power, prestige, and anti-English competition. Yet although the gold standard allowed countries to enact a virtual single world currency, the years before World War I were not a time of unfettered liberal economics and one-world, one-market harmony. Outside of Europe, the gold standard became a tool for nationalists and protectionists primarily interested in growing domestic industry and imperial expansion.This overlooked trend, provocatively reassessed in Steven Bryan's well-documented history, contradicts our conception of the gold standard as a British-based system infused with English ideas, interests, and institutions. In countries like Japan and Argentina, where nationalist concerns focused on infant-industry protection and the growth of military power, the gold standard enabled the expansion of trade and the goals of the age: industry and empire. Bryan argues that these countries looked less to Britain and more to North America and the rest of Europe for ideological models.Not only does this history challenge our idealistic notions of the prewar period, but it also reorients our understanding of the history that followed. Policymakers of the 1920s latched onto the idea that global prosperity before World War I was the result of a system dominated by English liberalism. Their attempt to reproduce this triumph helped bring about the global downturn, the Great Depression, and the collapse of the interwar world.
John Honigmann was an anthropologist of rare energy and talent. In addition to writing numerous books and dozens of articles, he was the first anthropologist to work among the three northern culture areas of Canada -- the Western Subarctic, Eastern Subarctic and the Arctic. This is a photographic record of this extraordinary anthropological journey. From the hundreds of photographs housed at The National Anthropological Archives at The Smithsonian Institute, and from the private collection of Dr Honigmann's children, Bryan Cummins has complied a written and photographic account of Honigmann's ethnographic work from the 1940s to the 1960s. The result is a stunning ethnohistorical account of Canada's First Nations in the mid-20th century. In addition to the photographs, Cummins provides an overview of northern First Nations, a history of Canadian anthropology and the sub-discipline of ethnographic photography, and a biography of Dr Honigmann, the man who took these superb photographs.
Completely updated in a new 3rd edition and written by the best-selling author team of Bryan E. Bledsoe D.O., F.A.C.E.P., EMT-P, Robert S. Porter M.A., NREMT-P, and Richard A. Cherry , M.S., NREMT-P , this student-friendly easy to understand series covers the DOT National Standard Curriculum . This book provides an overview of a Paramedic's role and Paramedic systems. Also covered are illness and injury prevention, medical/legal aspects, ethics, pathophysiology, pharmacology, medication administration, therapeutic communications, life span development, and airway management.
Professor Bryan Sykes provides a first-hand account of his research into a gene which passes undiluted from generation to generation through the maternal line and shows how it is being used to track our genetic ancestors.
Philosophical debates around individualization and the implications for intimacy, reflexivity and identity have occupied a central part of social and cultural theorizing in the West in the last decade. In fact, late modernity has become conspicuously engaged with issues of intimacy, reflexivity and identity. The author analyses the relevance of these debates in the context of contemporary Asia and combines an analysis of significant social theorists including Beck, Giddens, Bourdieu, McNay, Adkins, and Ong with an application of these debates to social, political and cultural contexts. Drawing on empirical research, case studies, global reports, media and academic literature, the book provides a relevant, wide-ranging and contemporary analysis of the debates on Asian culture and society. In the Foreword to the book Bryan Turner comments: 'Professor Brooks shows consequently that the intimate and emotional cultures that have been described by Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck with respect to the West have not arrived in Asia or at least that they have not become visible and permanent aspects of the social landscape.'
Everyone wants to write iPhone Apps - even those .NET developers who love writing in C# - and the introduction of Apple's iPad only makes the desire that much greater. Fortunately, there's MonoTouch, Novell's .NET library that allows C# developers to write C# code that executes in iPhone OS! Furthermore, MonoTouch allows you to address all the unique functions of the iPhone, iPad touch, and iPad. And the big plus...? You needn't learn any Objective-C to master MonoTouch! Former Microsoft engineer Bryan Costanich shows you how to use the tools you already know to create what look just like native Apps in iPhone OS. The magic is in Novell's implementation of Apple's Cocoa libraries in MonoTouch. Essentially, you'll master the same elegant and rich Cocoa environment, but without the need to learn a new programming language. Developing C# Applications for iPhone and iPad using MonoTouch takes you from your first Hello World example through the major APIs and features of the iPhone OS. The coverage is comprehensive and makes use of frequent examples, complete with sample code you can download and reuse to create your own powerful and playful apps.What you'll learn * How to use your existing C# skills to develop applications on the iPhone and iPad touch * Apple's Model View Controller (MVC) methodology * The unique Views and Controls built into the iPhone OS APIs and as implemented in CocoaTouch * Device-specific features, like CoreLocation for GPS, Wi-Fi, and the accelerometer * How to access and process data with CoreData and SQLite * Powerful programming techniques, such as threading and Web Services * The use of Apple APIs for Push Notification and StoreKit * The latest game porting techniques using XNA Touch Who this book is for Every .NET and C# developer who has have ever wanted to create an application or game for the AppStore, but found the prospect of learning Objective-C overly daunting.
'In ieder geval, ik kijk dus van bovenaf naar dat schilderij. Een heel fraai geometrisch werkje overigens hoor. Een soort afgeleide van die honingraat van Esscher, maar dan wat na´ever, wat speelser, en ik denk: dat gaat niet passen. En zij probeert alleen maar wilder om het toch in die auto te krijgen. Uiteindelijk geeft ze het op en legt het schilderij en de vogelkooi, met de vogel er nog in, op het dak van de auto, zet het raampje van haar portier open en probeert de boel vast te houden terwijl die Belgische Bryan Ferry wegrijdt.'Lernert Engelberts schetst in de verhalenbundel Echte slechte mensen op trefzekere toon het verval van de mens. De filmische verhalen vormen tezamen een evenwichtige bundel, waarin Engelberts met veel humor de slechtheid van zijn personages toetst. Over de auteurLernert Engelberts is dichter, schrijver, televisiemaker en regisseur.Hij debuteerde in 1996 met zijn dichtbundel Oedipoes werpt jongen; Hij werkte als regisseur en schrijver voor het VPRO programma Waskracht! waarvoor hij o.a. Driving Miss Palmen maakte: een soap over Connie Palmen en literair Nederland, opgenomen in Bollywood met Indiase acteurs. In 2005 maakte hij voor de serie Nieuwe Lola's Tussen twee mensen, een onderduikerskomedie en schreef in 2006 samen met Arjan Ederveen het programma Wroeten, dat hij regisseerde. Samen met vormgever/beeldend-kunstenaar Sander Plug maakte hij de serie Haas, in opdracht van de KRO.Samen met Michiel van Erp regisseerde hij in 2007 de documentaire Warme verhalen.Lernert was redacteur van RE-magazine en regelmatige bijdrager aan het blad BUTT.Hij organiseert de maandelijkse avonden Lost & Found in de Waag in Amsterdam, www.lost.nl. In April 2008 verscheen zijn verhalenbundel Echte slechte mensen. Samen met Sander Plug maakte hij de minifilm I love Alaska. Voor de kunstbijlage van De Volkskrant schreef hij de serie Hoe vertel ik het mijn ouders, waarin kunstenaars aan hun ouders uitleggen waar hun werk over gaat.In 2009 leerde h
The retrospective of portraits of Mick Jagger, one of the worlds most photographed performers, was a highlight of the 2010 Arles photography festival. This book gathers together all the photographs from that exhibition, introduced by the Festivals director, Francois Hebel. Hebel writes, 'In order to consider the rock portrait, we have chosen to focus on different unities: unity of face, in the form of Mick Jagger, and unity of genre the posed portrait, as opposed to stage photography or candid shots.' Published to coincide with the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition in May 2011, this book spans Jagger's entire career, from Mankowitz's portraits of the young artist in the 1960s and Cecil Beaton's on set shots from Performance to Anton Corbijn's shoot for Rolling Stone in 2005.This book includes photographs by Bryan Adams, Kevin Cummins, Karl Lagerfeld, Annie Leibovitz, Terry O'Neill, Herb Ritts, Ethan Russell, Andy Warhol and many more.
Stephen Bryan is found murdered in his bathroom. Will Grayson and Helen Walker, police detectives investigating the case assume that his death is the result of an ill-judged sexual encounter. But doubts are soon raised. Could the murder be connected to a biography he was writing on the life and mysterious death of screen legend, Stella Leonard?
Newly married Debbie is at her wits' end about her and Bryan's mounting debts, but there's no way he's going to stop living the high life and become a stay-at-home husband. Meanwhile, her dad has just found out his workaholic second wife, Aimee, is pregnant. He couldn't be happier, but she's horrified. Is their marriage going to last?
Packed with information, practical tips on panel composition, storytelling, tools and materials, inspiration and references, how to break into the industry and more, this guide is suitable for Bryan Hitch fans the world over. It is a visual feast of dynamic, impactful art for comic fans all over the world
In the highly anticipated second edition of this groundbreaking book, NAPP GURU award recipient and professional photographer Leslie Alsheimer and Adobe's own Bryan O'Neil Hughes show you everything you need to know to uncover the secrets to successful black and white conversion and printmaking. This comprehensive reference will help you maximize your workflow with coverage of all of the relevant new features of Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom 2, including every stage of the black and white process from capture to printing. Along the way, you'll find in-depth explanations of key topics such as color management, optimizing your workspace, softproofing and calibration (both onscreen and for output), evaluating histograms, non-destructive editing, and much more. New features in this edition include:In-depth coverage of workflow using the Bridge and Adobe Camera RAW components of CS4New recipes and tips for advanced black and white conversion Coverage of Lightr
Diabetes mellitus, particularly non-insulin-dependent diabetes Type 2, is a common disease and, even though insulin has been around for seventy years, this endocrine disorder still reduces the life expectancy of diabetic patients because of the development of long-term complications, including hypertension. Hypertension occurs twice as often in diabetic patients as in non-diabetic ones. The combination of diabetes and hypertension creates a greater risk of coronary artery disease which is the major cause of death in westernized societies. Bryan Williams and his international team of collaborators provide the reader with their views for treatment of diabetes associated with hypertension and the prevention of subsequent coronary artery disease and other disorders.
The Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management addresses the core definitions and issues in pure and applied ecology. It is neither a short entry dictionary nor a long entry encyclopedia, but lies somewhere in between. The mixture of short entry definitions and long entry essays gives a comprehensive and up-to-date alphabetical guide to over 3000 topics, and allows any subject to be accessed to varying levels of detail; while the longer entries provide general reviews of subjects, the short definitions provide specific details on more specialised areas. An important feature of the Encyclopedia which sets it apart from other similar works is the comprehensive cross-referencing. The most comprehensive and up-to-date reference work in pure and applied ecology. Definitions cover the entire spectrum of pure and applied ecological research. Distinguished editorial board: Dr Peter Moore, Professor John Grace, Professor Bryan Shorrocks, Professor Steven Stearns, Professor Don Falk. International team of distinguished authors - over 200 contributors from 20 countries. 3000 headwords defined. Over 250 long entries review major topics. Heavily illustrated, with a section of colour plates. Complete one volume guide to pure and applied ecology. Presents cutting edge definitions in emerging fields as well as grounding in well-established areas of ecology.
Karl Mannheim was one of the leading sociologists of the twentieth century. Essays on the Sociology of Culture, originally published in 1956, was one of his most important books. In it he sets out his ideas of intellectuals as producers of culture and explores the possibilities of a democratization of culture. This new edition includes a superb new preface by Bryan Turner which sets Mannheim's study in the appropriate historical and intellectual context and explains why his thought on culture remains essential for students engaged in debates about mass culture, the politics of culture and postmodernity.
'Every PhD student should buy a copy of How to Publish your PhD before and not after they enroll for a doctoral degree. Informative, practical and insightful, Sarah Caro will become the mentor of every successful PhD student. A mine of information and practical advice, this text is the definitive nuts-and-bolts manual on how to do it. A safe and sure guide' - Bryan S. Turner, Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor, Wellesly College. How to Publish Your PhD is the first book to provide emerging researchers with a comprehensive and authoritative guide to publishing their research. Drawing on nearly twenty years in the book business Sarah Caro explains in a clear and accessible way the key issues facing the would-be author. Within the context of today's fast changing world where new technologies and increasing globalization continue to impact on academia and the world of academic publishing, key issues are discussed ranging from whether publishing your PhD is always the best way to enhance your career prospects to whether you should focus on journals or books. A wealth of practical information and advice is included on: - choosing a publisher, - revising your thesis, - putting together a proposal, - surviving the review process, - negotiating a contract - working with your publishers marketing department. The book is designed to be an easy to use, one stop guide with examples, chapter summaries and further reading. It will be an invaluable resource for emerging researchers across the broadest range of the humanities and social sciences and for all those teaching and advising them, in Europe and the US. Sarah Caro is the Economics & Finance Editor for Oxford University Press.
Developments in information technology and the internet are taking place at an almost bewildering pace. Such improvements, however, are believed to present opportunities for improving the responsiveness and accountability of political institutions and enhancing citizen participation.In Cyberdemocracy the theoretical arguments for and against "e;electronic democracy"e; and the potential of information and communication technology are closely examined. The book is underpinned by a series of case studies in the US and Europe that demonstrate the application of "e;electronic democracy"e; in a number of city and civic projects.Cyberdemocracy provides a balanced and considered evaluation of the potential for "e;electronic democracy"e; based on empirical research. It will be a valuable contribution to a vigorous debate about the state of democracy and the influence of information technology.Roza Tsagarousianou is a lecturer and researcher at the Centre for Communication and Information Studies of the University of Westminster. Damian Tambini is a research fellow at Humbolt University, Berlin. Cathy Bryan is a researcher at Informed Sources and is concerned with developments in media and communications technologies.
Dit boek gaat onder meer over de zevenjarige Bryan, die seksueel misbruikt is door zijn vader. Over de negenjarige Oumou die met haar familie het oorlogsgeweld in een Afrikaans land ontvlucht en daarbij haar moeder verliest en over de zesjarige Thomas die een pijnlijke chemokuur heeft moeten doorstaan. Bryan, Oumou en Thomas hebben het vertrouwen in anderen en in zichzelf verloren. Hun levensplezier, optimisme, nieuwsgierigheid en veerkracht zijn verdwenen. Het zijn drie met stomheid geslagen kinderen die niet kunnen praten over wat hen is overkomen, omdat ze te jong zijn, een verstandelijke beperking hebben, (te) loyaal zijn aan hun ouders of omdat hetgeen ze overkomen is gewoonweg te overweldigend is. Wat ze alle drie wél kunnen is spelen. In hun spelverhalen komen verraad en onbegrip tot uiting, maar ook woede, verdriet, angst en machteloosheid. Psychotherapie met behulp van spel biedt een mogelijkheid deze kinderen te helpen. Spel is hun taal. En als er taal is, kan er gecommuniceerd worden en is hulp mogelijk. 'Spel in psychotherapie gaat' in op de betekenissen van de spelsymboliek: hoe is spel te doorgronden en te begrijpen? Op speltechnieken: hoe doe je het? Op behandelkaders: hoe kan er samengewerkt worden met ouders? Al deze aspecten worden in vele diagnostische en therapeutische voorbeelden toegelicht. Bovendien komt de wetenschappelijke fundering aan bod: de speltheorie en het onderzoek naar de effectiviteit van spelpsychotherapie. De uitgave is primair geschreven voor kinderpsychotherapeuten, kinderpsychiaters, klinisch psychologen, Gz-psychologen en vaktherapeuten; voor hen is het een handboek. Ook zij die betrokken zijn bij de zorg voor het welzijn van kinderen binnen de GGz, de jeugdhulpverlening en het onderwijs behandelverantwoordelijken, orthopedagogen, leerkrachten en beleidsmakers zullen in dit boek veel van hun gading vinden.
Whether they prefer blockbusters, historical dramas, or documentaries, people learn much of what they know about history from the movies. a In American History Goes to the Movies, W. Bryan Rommel-Ruiz shows how popular representations of historic events shape the way audiences understand the history of the United States, including American representations of race and gender, and stories of immigration, especially the familiar narrative of the American Dream. Using films from many different genres, American History Goes to the Movies draws together movies that depict the Civil War, the Wild West, the assassination of JFK, and the events of 9/11, from Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind to The Exorcist and United 93, to show how viewers use movies to make sense of the past, addressing not only how we render history for popular enjoyment, but also how Hollywood's renderings of America influence the way Americans see themselves and how they make sense of the world.
A quickly absorbed jargon- busting introduction to the language of criminal justice and its unique and fascinating usages. The Pocket A-Z connects key terms, concepts, processes, laws, people and events. The 2,000 plus entries and cross-references give insight and perspective, making it invaluable to anyone involved in criminal justice work or study. Get up to speed with the language of criminal justice Touchstones aid understanding and memory A handy reference guide for students, practitioners and anyone needing criminal justice insight The Pocket A-Z of Criminal Justice draws together words and phrases commonly encountered by practitioners and researchers. It represents real value for its breadth and simplicity. It also includes extensive sections on Touchstones and Curiosities, 500 commonly encountered Acronyms and Abbreviations and a Timeline. Bryan Gibson is a barrister, former co-editor of Justice of the Peace and a regular contributor to specialist journals. He has also written for The Times, Guardian, Sunday Express, BBC TV and The Stage. He founded Waterside Press in 1989 where as editor-in-chief he has for 20 years been 'putting justice into words' with books about criminal justice and related matters.
Cutting-edge research and innovative sciencePROGRESS in Inorganic ChemistryHailed by professional chemists as an index of the most influential and current research being done in inorganic chemistry, Progress in Inorganic Chemistry has also enjoyed the reputation as an indispensable working reference. Featuring the work of internationally renowned chemists, this newest volume provides a clear, authoritative examination of each critically new advance and innovative tremor in inorganic chemistry today."e;This series is a valuable addition to the library of the practicing research chemist, and is a good starting point for students wishing to understand modern inorganic chemistry."e; --Canadian Chemical News"e;[This series] has won a deservedly honored place on the bookshelf of the chemist attempting to keep afloat in the torrent of original papers on inorganic chemistry."e; --Chemistry in BritainCONTENTS OF VOLUME 42 * Slow Proton-Transfer Reactions in Organometallic and Bioinorganic Chemistry (K. W. Kramarz and J. R. Norton, Colorado State University) * Higher Oligopyridines as a Structural Motif in Metallosupramolecular Chemistry (Edwin C. Constable, Universitat Basel) * Ternary Transition Metal Sulfides (Bryan W. Eichhorn, University of Maryland) * Organoimido Complexes of the Transition Metals (David E. Wigley, University of Arizona) * Palladium Complex Catalyzed Oxidation Reactions (Andreas Heumann, Klaus-Joachim Jens, and Marius Reglier, Universite d'Aix-Marseille)
'The contributions of Woodiwiss, Lister and Sassen are outstanding but not unrepresentative of the many merits of this excellent collection'- The British Journal of Sociology From women's rights, civil rights, and sexual rights for gays and lesbians to disability rights and language rights, we have experienced in the past few decades a major trend in Western nation-states towards new claims for inclusion. This trend has echoed around the world: from the Zapatistas to Chechen and Kurdish nationalists, social and political movements are framing their struggles in the languages of rights and recognition, and hence, of citizenship. Citizenship has thus become an increasingly important axis in the social sciences. Social scientists have been rethinking the role of political agent or subject. Not only are the rights and obligations of citizens being redefined, but also what it means to be a citizen has become an issue of central concern. As the process of globalization produces multiple diasporas, we can expect increasingly complex relationships between homeland and host societies that will make the traditional idea of national citizenship problematic. As societies are forced to manage cultural difference and associated tensions and conflict, there will be changes in the processes by which states allocate citizenship and a differentiation of the category of citizen. This book constitutes the most authoritative and comprehensive guide to the terrain. Drawing on a wealth of interdisciplinary knowledge, and including some of the leading commentators of the day, it is an essential guide to understanding modern citizenship. About the editors: Engin F Isin is Associate Professor of Social Science at York University. His recent works include Being Political: Genealogies of Citizenship (Minnesota, 2002) and, with P K Wood, Citizenship and Identity (Sage, 1999). He is the Managing Editor of Citizenship Studies. Bryan S Turner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. He has written widely on
The cutting edge of scientific reporting . . .PROGRESS in Inorganic ChemistryNowhere is creative scientific talent busier than in the world of inorganic chemistry experimentation. Progress in Inorganic Chemistry continues in its tradition of being the most respected avenue for exchanging innovative research. This series provides inorganic chemists and materials scientists with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. With contributions from internationally renowned chemists, this latest volume offers an in-depth, far-ranging examination of the changing face of the field, providing a tantalizing glimpse of the emerging state of the science."e;This series is distinguished not only by its scope and breadth, but also by the depth and quality of the reviews."e;—Journal of the American Chemical Society"e;[This series] has won a deservedly honored place on the bookshelf of the chemist attempting to keep afloat in the torrent of original papers on inorganic chemistry."e;—Chemistry in BritainCONTENTS OF VOLUME 54:Atomlike Building Units of Adjustable Character: Solid-State and Solution Routes to Manipulating Hexanuclear Transition Metal Chalcohalide Clusters (Eric J. Welch and Jeffrey R. Long)Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Synthesis, Characterization, Physical Properties, and Applications (J. Daniel Bryan and Daniel R. Gamelin)Stereochemical Aspects of Metal Xanthane Complexes: Molecular Structures and Supramolecular Self-Assembly (Edward R. T. Tiekink and Ionel Haiduc)Trivalent Uranium: A Versatile Species for Molecular Activation (Ilia Korobkov and Sandro Gambarotta)Comparison of the Chemical Biology of NO and HNO: An Inorganic Perspective (Katrina M. Miranda and David A. Wink)Alterations of Nucleobase pKa Values upon Metal Coordination: Origins and Consequences (Bernhard Lippert)Functionalization of Myoglobin (Yoshihito Watanabe and Takashi Hayashi)
